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Re: st: replacing values of a variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: replacing values of a variable
Date
Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:49:06 +0000
It's legal. If it doesn't do what you expect, check for leading,
trailing or repeated internal spaces and consistency in using lower
and upper case. Fix problems with -trim()-, -itrim()- and -lower()-.
Nick
On 9 Mar 2013, at 10:27, James Bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
I am trying to copy values of a string variable into another one if a
condition is met. I keep getting "0 real changes made"
var 1 var2
--------- ---------
jan-2000 jan-2000
march-2000 same year
june-1999 june-1999
replace var2=var1 if var2=="same year"
what is wrong with this code?
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